Education Headlines
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In wake of Connecticut school shooting, LAPD begins campus patrols
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies stepped up their presence at school campuses Monday in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Connecticut.Long Beach school board to consider cuts to AVID college prep program
In its regular meeting Tuesday, the LBUSD board will consider a plan to reduce the high school AVID program by 13 course sections, about half of those now available, and eliminate the program in its K-8.New statewide test to be proposed Tuesday
California's top educator will unveil his proposal for a new statewide test at a press conference on Tuesday.South Bay corruption probe triples in size
A corruption probe in the South Bay tripled in size Monday, as 15 people faced 232 felony and misdemeanor counts in the scandal involving construction contracts at three South Bay school districts.Escalon schools chief moves to county post
Escalon Unified Superintendent Ron Costa has accepted a new position to be the San Joaquin County Office of Education's assistant superintendent of educational services.At LAUSD's Chatsworth Elementary, LAPD lieutenant is front and center
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department and other law-enforcement agencies fanned out across Los Angeles Unified during the first day of a beefed-up patrol operation dubbed Operation Embrace.California gets an F in report on state education policies
California has earned an F on a report card issued by the maverick education-reform group StudentsFirst. And as a sign of how fractious school politics has become, the state's No. 2 education official called the failing grade "a badge of honor."EdWatch 2013: Unfinished agenda on school discipline
A California assemblyman is once again trying to curb expulsions and suspensions for what’s known as “willful defiance,” when kids act out or misbehave in class or during school activities.EdWatch 2013: Teacher evaluation law will be taken on again
Breakthrough agreements in two California school districts and a much anticipated report on improving teacher effectiveness have raised expectations that it might actually be possible to amend or rewrite the state’s outdated and ineffective state law on teacher evaluations in a way that can work for both unions and school districts.Brown's budget expected to aid schools' energy efficiency
When Gov. Jerry Brown releases his budget proposal Thursday, he will include his plans for $500 million in new spending on energy efficiency and related programs.
Monday, January 7, 2013